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B14999	An houre glasse of Indian newes. Or A true and tragicall discourse, shewing the most lamentable miseries, and distressed calamities indured by 67 Englishmen, which were sent for a supply to the planting in Guiana in the yeare. 1605 VVho not finding the saide place, were for want of victuall, left a shore in Saint Lucia, an island of caniballs, or men-eaters in the West-Indyes, vnder the conduct of Captain Sen-Iohns, of all which said number, onely a 11. are supposed to be still liuing, whereof 4. are lately returnd into England. Written by Iohn Nicholl, one of the aforesaid company.	Nicholl, John, emigrant to Guiana.	1607 (1607)	STC 18532; ESTC S110152	24,474	44

a Grater which he made of small sharpe flint stones beaten into a broade boord to grate our Cassada on whereof we made our breade and hee tolde vs that Anthonio would cut our throates and therefore bid vs kill him This made vs doubtfull which to trust to We had certaine Articles drawne which were to bée obserued wherein Captaine Nicholas Sen-Iohns was Captaine his brother Alexander Lieutenant Miles Pet and Philip Glascock were commaunders for the appoynting of our Watch Iohn Rogers was our interpreter for the Spanish tongue and was to buy and bargaine with the Indians for all the companie both for commodities and victuals Maister Garret Master Tench Francis Brace and my selfe were appointed to order the domesticall matters Carebie signifies in their language A valiant man All the occasions that we made whereby the Carrebyes should fall out with vs was that one of our companie did sell a sworde vnto Captaine Anthonio which was contrarie to the Articles wee had set downe for none was vpon paine of seuere punishment to sel either Sworde Dagger or Hedge-bill which when we knew Alexander Sen-Iohns with a dozen more went to his house and found him in his bed which they call an Hamaco with a little fire vnder him because hs was not well and the Sword standing by him which yong Sen-Iohns tooke and brought forth to vs. This droue him into a great rage against vs for neuer after that would he be familiar with vs. The Carrebyes did weare for an ornament vpon the small of their naked aimes a foure-square plate which maister Browne a Gold-finer told Captaine Sen-Iohns had three partes of it Golde who asked the Carrebyes where they got it who presently pointed vs to a great Mountaine on the North-west part of the Island whose toppe we might see from the place where wee dwelt but Anthonio saide there was none These contrarie tales made vs suspect some villanie and that it was but a pollicie to drawe some of our companie thither whereby they might the better deale with vs for at home they d●rst not attempt any thing against vs both for feare of our great Peece and also wee would not suffer them to bring their bowes and arrowes within our Centinell Yet our Captaine would not bee content till wee consented that hee should goe to the Mountaine and tooke with him all sortes of commodities to bargaine with the Indians for Cloath and he tooke old Browne the Gold-finer and his sonne George Browne Iohn Rogers Maister Looking the three sailers whose names were Iohn Fleming Thomas Butler Owen a Welchman Iames Garret one Ioseph and Christopher two Grocers and one Maister Euans with diuerse more to the number of sixtéene And vpon A Monday they all imbarked in the Boat taking eight dayes victuall with them promising to return betwixt that and the next Monday leauing his brother Miles Pet Philip Glascock M. Garret M. Tench and my selfe to rule at home Vpon Tuesday Wednesday the Indians did not come vnto vs with victuals as they had wōt which made vs after suspect that they were at the slaughter of our men at the Mount vpon Wednesday my selfe with 3. more went to Anthonios house where we found a great number of women but not passing halfe a score men making great preparation of victuals some baking of Cassada others roasting and boyling of great fishes and Turtles I offred to buy some of them but they refused and would not neither would they looke of any commoditie we had which made vs much maruell for before that time they neuer denied vs so we departed by the way we light of a narrow path wherein we trauelled a little and all along the way did growe aboundance of Guiaua trees whose fruit is as big as an Apple and verie pleasant to eate the greene ones are wholesome for the bloodie flixe Wee had not trauayled a Mile but wee entered downe by a Thicket into a most pleasant Garden of Potatoes which droue vs into greate admiration to beholde the manner of it for it was made round like a Bower encompassed with a greene Banke so equally that made vs thinke some Christians had made it for a strength to saue them from the Indians and vppon the toppe thereof did growe a companie of the moste tallest Trées that euer I behelde which did naturally growe so neere one to another and so thicke from the roote to the toppe that wee could not perceyue the skie through them But following the path wee perceyued it to passe through a narrow cut in the banke where wee traueyled two or three miles further passing through many goodly Gardens wherein was aboundance of Cassada Potatoes Tobacco Cotten-wool-trees and Guiaua trees in diuerse places as wee trauayled wee did maruaile to see the huge and great trées that were there for most of them were fiue or sixe fathoms about and fearing that wee shoulde bee benighted wee returned the same way againe with as much greene Tobacco Potatoes and Cassada as wee could carrie which did much content our men at home for the Indians had not brought any victuals in three dayes before At night sixe of our men went to seeke for Turtles and founde two verie great ones but could not bring them home For when they had turned them on their backes it beganne to raine thunder and lighten so extreamly that they had much a doe to get home themselues and so it continued all night with the moste horriblest thunder-claps that euer I heard with lightning and raine as light as day which caused vs to awake and after prayers to fit all night by greate Fiers drinking of Tobacc with extraordinarie myrth amongest our selues little foreseeing the daunger that befell to vs the next day Earely the next Morning wee went to bring home our Turtles and there wee founde a great number of Carrebyes on the shore and three or foure Boates by them roasting of lande Crabbes for what purpose they were so gathered together wee know not but least we should suspect them of any bad intent towardes vs they willed vs to eate with them and brought home our Turtles to our houses All that fore-noone wee kept good watch for there was verie many which came both by Sea and land and Augraumart and his father came with a great number of Indians and brought in his hande a quarter of a Turtle and a hundred Egges and gaue them to young Sen-Iohns and tolde him that if hee would goe to his Brother Anthonius house hee should haue greate store of victualls and that hee should see his wife and the more to perswade vs to goe hee promised that wee should haue Hamacas for to sleepe in which is the beds they vse Their Women dooth make them of Cotten that growes naturallye on the Trees wereof they haue aboundance Wee manye times made s●te vnto them for their Hamacas because they would bee a meanes to saue vs from the Stings of curtaine Flor called a Musketo the

himselfe the yeare following afterward againe by Captaine Keymish and oth●●● at the charges of the said Sir Walter Rawleigh it being reputed to bée the chiefest place for golde Mines in all the West India but the prosecution therof being left off for a time by what occasion I know not it so happened that in the yeare of our Lord 1602 Captaine Charles Leigh made a voyage thither for the discouerie thereof and finding a fit place for habitation determined to procure the planting of a Colonie there in the Riuer Wiapica which said determination at his returne being put in practise with the furtherance and speciall charge of the worshipfull Knight Sir Oliue Leigh certaine men were sent thither there to inhabite vnder the conduct of the aforesaid Captain Charles Leigh who remayned there about a yeare and a halfe where he with manie of his companie dyed For a supplie vnto which companie was another companie sent in the yeare 1605. at the charges of the sayde Sir Oliue Leigh and certaine other aduenturers of which companie my selfe was one all vnder the conduct and leading of Captaine Sen-Iohns who being embarked in the Oliue Branch of Sir Oliue Leigh whereof was captaine and master vnder God captaine Catlin and Arthur Chambers Being thus readie doe set saile the twelfth of Aprill one thousand sixe hundred and fiue nothing hapning worth note till wee came as high as the North Cape where an English Barke ouertaking vs foure of our Gentlemen by reason of their sickenesse were desirous to returne home againe so that getting their passage for Lisbone they tooke their leaue of vs whose names were Maister Rogers Maister Catlin Maister Sanders and another whose name I doe not now remember So wee continued our course to the Canaries and so to Cape Blancko in Barbarie and from thence to the I le of Mayo in which time of our voyage it fell out as often it hapneth in such actions that our companie being deuided as being some sea-men and the rest land-men who are for the most part many times of contrarie natures there was some heart-burning and malice one against another which rested not onely in the common sort but rather and most chiefly in our captaines whose haughtie mindes not brooking contradiction on either side had like to haue growne to a daungerous distention had it not beene appeased by the diligent perswasions of some other of the companie whose plausible spirites were more addicted to vnitie and peace then any way liking of such daungerous and indirect courses they well fore-knowing that ciuill discorde haue beene the ouerthrow of mightie kingdomes and great common weales and therefore well might haue béene the vtter subuersion of our so weake slenderly gouerned companie But all parties being now as it seemed to the outward view quieted we went a shore vpon the said I le of Mayo to take in fresh water and s●lt where we found 5. Portugals which had bin robbed by the French and there set a shore where hauing stayed fiue dayes hunting of Goats and refreshing of our men we departed to saint Iago where we landed the fiue Portugals in reward of which kindnesse of ours the Inhabitants tooke thrée of our men and kept them as prisoners while they sent seauen leagues into the Countrey to know the Gouernours pleasure and at night sent them aboord againe hauing taken certaine commodities from them which they had to buy some of their fruits From thence hauing weyed our Anchor with a merrie gale we sailed towardes our desired place to the countrey of Guiana but missing of our expectation here began the first scene of our ensuing miseries for whether it was our Masters want of knowledge that we fell not with the prefixed place or that the current which our master alledged to be the reason that setting verie strongly to the North-wards put vs so farre short thereof or whither as of all others that is most certaine it pleased God in that place at that time and in such a manner to let vs feele some part of his heauie displeasure conceyued against vs for our times formerly mispent so as I say the ending of our hopes was the beginning of our miseries for plying to and againe wandring as it were in a wildernesse of woe betwixt hope and dispaire the time passed away with the time our victuals the onely hop● of our health exceedingly wasted therevpon our allowance was greatly shortned with the same other occurrencee our mens minds very much distracted which bred amongst vs many fearfull daungerous mutinies And as one miserie commeth still in the necke of another so fared it with vs for with our want of victuals we being neare vnto the Equinoctiall and the Sun in that part of the Zodiacke which was neare vnto our Zenith it was so exceeding hot that with the vehemencie thereof many of our men fell maruellous weake and some of them died namely our Carpenters mate Iohn Browne our Cooke and Robert Paine and many others were is weake that they were not able to come aboue the hatches This extremitie caused vs though against our stomacks to entreate the master to bring vs to the nearest shore he could And so hauing beene seuenteene wéekes at sea in stead of our hopefull expectations of attaining to a pleasant rich and golden Counteey and the comfortable companie of our friends and Countrey-men there as we supposed then resident we were brought to an Iland in the West India somewhat distant from the maine called Santa Lucia hauing about twelue degrees of North latitude inhabited onely with a companie of most cruell Caniballs and man-eaters where we had no sooner anchored but the Carebyes came in their Periagoes or Boats aboord vs with great store of Tobacco Plantons Potatoes Pines Sugar Canes and diuerse other fruits with Hens Chickens Turtles Guauas for all which we contented and pleased them well These Carrebyes at their first comming in our sight did seeme most strange and vgly by reason they are all naked with long blacke haire hanging downe their shoulders their bodies all painted with red and from their eares to their eyes they do make three strokes with red which makes them looke like diuels or Anticke faces wherein they take a great pride The next morning we went a shore with all our weak men where there was sixe or seauen houses planted by a pleasant fresh water Riuer which Captain Sen-iohns bought for a Hatchet of an Indian Captaine called Anthonie who could speake a little Spanish and he told vs he had beene a slaue to the Spaniard in the I le of Margareta so he and al his companie went to another towne some three myles of Whilest our sicke men were a shore refreshi●g themselues our Maister would haue departed and haue left them to shift among the Carrebyes but Captaine Sen-Iohns and the chiefe of our companie would not consent thereto And seeing it was in vaine all of vs for to venter home in the

which would so torment vs with their pay loued stings and cause vs to swell as though we had the Leprosie for they would sting through three payr● of Stockings but they were not willing till now on the suddaine that wee should haue any And because they were so kinde to vs wee tooke them all into our houses and were verie merrye and pleasant with them and gaue them Aqua vitae which they delighted much in But Maister Tench who had wont to bee a curious corrector of vs in our merr●ments did show himselfe so extraordinarie pleasant that hee fell a singing of Catches with the Carrebyes and caused them in drinke carouses of Aqua vitae and water If wee had beene determined to haue kild them wee might haue done it at that time with small danger wee had a hundreth and aboue of them within out houses without eyther dowe or Arrowes And when some of our companie made such a motion as to put them to the Sworde for some of vs was halfe and more iealous of them that they had done some mischiefe to our captaine by reason one of our companie did say that hee heard an Indian say that the Captaine of the English had his hande cutte off at the Mount but this was not regarded but was imputed that hee had misconstrued the Carrobyes language Maister Tench was agaynst it saying God woulde not bee pleased with such a bloudie Act agaynst such harmlesse people and therefore willed vs not to doe it without they gaue the first occasion wherein hee wronged himselfe and vs all in seeking to saue the liues of them who within three houres after most cruellye murthered him Before Dinner they all departed but Augraumart and his father who dined with vs. And presently after dinner eighteene was chosen to goe to Anthonios house with Augraumart and his father who had neither bowe nor arrow onely his father had a Brasell sworde This they did least wee shoulde suspect their treacherie But wee not fearing anie treason because wee had beene often times well vsed there before went on boldly And some of our companie thought that the verie fight of our Peeces was sufficient to terrifie them for attempting any villany against vs. And therfore did not ●egarde either to charge them or to light our match In this carelesse and secure manner wee trauayled through a little necke of land which runnes farre into the Sea and then wee entered vpon the sand which was so extreame hote with the reflexion of the Sunne that wee were not able to trauaile apace being loaden with our Peeces But Maister Alexander had put off his Doublet and gaue his Boy his Peece went iesting playing arme in arme with the two Carrebyes a good space before vs vntil wee came to a point of Land a quarter of a mile from Anthonios house and then hee called vs to come forward but hee beeing light and coole did keepe a greate way before vs still And when hee least suspected daunger Augraum●●t made as though hee would imbrace him And suddenlye clasping holde with one hand on his Rapyer and the other on his Dagger and his Father with a great Brussell Sword strooke him downe before we could come at him but he recouered againe Then came the Arrowes so thicke out of the wood that we could not get our match in the Cocke for pulling the Arrowes out of our bodyes so amongst vs all was but fiue or sixe peeces discharged which when the Indians saw giue fire they did fall flat on the ground shouting and crying with a moste hellish noyse naming vs by our names when they hit vs. Then wee retyred backe to a poynt of land thinking there to haue fitted our peeces and to haue giuen them a volley of shot But there came another Ambush on our backes and round about vs insomuch that wee were inforced to forsake our peeces and betake vs to our swords which did much incourage them for when they see wee could not hurt them with our peeces they would come so neere vs as though they purposed to make choyce in what place to hit vs of some they shot in the faces others through the Shoulders and of others they would naile their feete and the ground together Maister Budge and Robert Shaw ranne into the sea and there were both drowned and kild with Arrowes Maister Tench had a little Bucklet with the which bee did saue himselfe a long time but at the last an Arrowe passed through both his legges that hee could not goe and stooping to pull it out they kild him and if anye of vs offered to runne at one or two of them they would runne away and of a suddaine twentie or thirtie would inclose vs and still shoote Arrowes in them til they were downe and then would they with a great Brassell sword beate them to death and after would rifle them Maister Kettleby did behaue himselfe verie gallantlye for hee did not respect what arrowes hee receiued in his bodye so hee could but reach one stroke at a Carrebye but they were too nimble for vs in regard they were naked Yet neuerthelesse wee runne through them all thinking that if wee had escaped that ambush there had béen no more to trouble vs but as I was a pulling Arrowes out of his bodye to the number of twentie at the least there came the third ambush out of the woodes from whence came an Arrowe and hit him in the Breast which hee perceiued would bee his death for hee could not stand but as I hold him but I was forced to let him goe and shift to saue my selfe Then I ouer tooke young Sen-Iohns his bodye almost full of Arrowes of which I pulled out a number But what for the bloud that runne from him and the extreame heate hee was in by his running hee was not able to ouertake the re●t of our companye that was before And still the Carrebyes did gather ground vppon vs and the Arrowes came thicke on euerie side Then hee willed mee to intreate them stay and when I had ouertaken one I caused him to stay which hee was vnwilling to doe for hee tolde mee his Sword would not come foorth of the Scabberd so I tooke hold of the Hilts and betwixt vs both pulled it out but before wee had made an ende these cruell and bloodye Carrebyes had encompassed yong Sen-Iohns yet to my griefe I did stand and beholde his ende who before hee fell did make them run like so many Curres from a Lyon for looke which way hee ran they all fled before him his body was so loaden with Arrowes that he fell to the ground and vpon one hand and knees hee did keepe them from him with his Swoord so much hee scorned so basely to dye at their handes We two were then the onely markes they aymed at for hauing rifled young Seniohus they pursued vs very hotly which caused vs make haste to foure of our fellowes who were entred into a